Applause applause!

Get it? Another Clap pun. You won't have to put up with many more because this time the Clap is done:

 

The particulars:

Pattern: Clapotis, abbreviated to make a scarf:

• the setup section
• two full repeats of section two, plus the required partial amount of the final increase row.
• 17 repeats of section three - this sounds longer than the original shawl, but it's not, as you are losing length by not doing the full eight repeats of the increase and decrease sections.
• two repeats plus the final ten rows of the decrease section #4
• section five

Yarn: Noro Silk Garden, colourway #279, 140 gms (almost three skeins). There was at least one knot per skein, but in the 13 skeins I used for my Lady Eleanor and this project, only a few occasions where the yarn disintegrated to fluffy nothingness.

I have a knitting wish - to go to the Noro factory to watch their manufacturing process so I may better understand the product's limitations. Someone told be their quality control allows for up to four knots per skein. I don't so much have a problem with the knots, it's the abrupt colour changes at the joining points. Sometimes the skein even reverses colour order. Now that drives me crazy.

It doesn't stop me from using the stuff, I'm a glutton for Silk Garden punishment having knit 42 skeins of it in one form or another. That's just over three miles of Silk Garden. I would have expected it to be more. It sounds better in Canadian - just over five kilometers. And there are another 19 skeins stashed in my future :-)

Comments

[Marina]

It's amazing what we'll put up with, just to use our favourite yarn. Or in my case, the easier yarn to use. Next time I'm in Scotland, I will be visiting Jamieson's.

Anyway, the truncated Clap looks great. What plans do you have for the other 19?

[Lacys.studio]

Have you seen the book - Knitting Noro: The Magic of Knitting with Hand-Dyed Yarns
by Jane Ellison
It's a nice book with a few nice patterns. I did a sample piece for a shop of the knee high sock from the book. It was some fun. But I do find that if you tug a little bit to hard in some areas of the Noro yarn, it will come apart and that's not fun.

[Jane]

Very pretty! I love Noro, too, but those knots and wacky color changes make me a little nuts. Also the sometimes thick and thin bits. But the colors are (usually) wonderful.

[SallyH]

The main feature of Noro yarns is the gradual colour changes. A knot with a sudden change from baby poo gold to emerald green requires a good deal of searching to find a matching colour elsewhere in the skein, followed by splicing the yarns and discarding many yards of the out-of-sequence colours.

Every time I buy Noro it's a triumph of hope over experience. At the price, it shouldn't be that way. Noro yarns are luxury products and it's time their quality control reflected this.

[Kate]

I agree that the price of Noro should allow for higher QC practices! Our knitting group just finished knitting claps for a knit-a-long... some people knit them in Ellie's reclaimed cashmere... to.die.for.

I like your mods... I have a cool space dyed yarn (black-gray-white transition) that I am going to try. Once I find my yarn. Damn packing!

[Kristen]

I'm applauding your undulating Clapotis scarf.

[Elizabeth]

I apologize for this, but I asked you for the herringbone rib scarf pattern, and you sent it, and the computer ate it. Or the Delete Key ate it. Could I have lost it? (Sigh).

Please send it again.

[Kathy]

I love it! I'm currently knitting a Clap from Taiyo. Interesting that you mention that knots -- they are kind of annoying me too!

[Criquette]

Wow! The Clap is beautiful! And I agree about Silk garden - it's worth it to cut and splice!

[Lauren Santucci]

I'm new to Ravelry, but I am intrigued by your herringbone rib patterned scarf and have tons of noro silk garden stash, also some manos so I would love to try it. Please send me the pattern at my email:[email protected]
Thanks so much!
Lauren Santucci